Latvian SSR

Latvijas Padomju
Sociālistiskā Republika

COA (In Detail) (In Detail)
State motto: Visu zemju proletārie?i, savienojieties!
Official language	According to the constitution, all languages were equal. However, Russian was supposed to be the language of international communication, thus putting Latvian at a disadvantage.
Capital	Riga
Chairman of the Supreme Council	Anatolijs Gorbunovs (at the time of regaining independence)
Area  - Total  - % water	Ranked 11th in former Soviet Union 64,589 km² --
Population  - Total (1989)  - Density	Ranked 14th in the former Soviet Union 2,666,567 41,3/km²
Currency	Ruble (rublis)
Time zone	UTC + 3
Anthem	Anthem of Latvian SSR

The Latvian SSR was a Soviet Republic, and a constituent part of the Soviet Union between 1940 and 1991.

Latvia had broken away from the Russian Empire after the Russian Revolution and, after a war with Bolshevist Russia from 1918 to 1920, remained independent until the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. It was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, and then occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941. The Latvian SSR was restored in 1944 after Soviet Army assumed control over most of its teritory.

The Latvian SSR, along with the other Baltic Republics was allowed greater autonomy in the late 1980s, and in 1988 the old pre-war Flag of Latvia was allowed to be used, and replaced the Soviet Latvian flag as the official flag in 1990. The Latvian SSR became the independent state of Latvia on August 21, 1991, 4 months before the Soviet Union ceased to exist.